The National Institute on Aging (NIA) announces a trans-NIH Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on Multidisciplinary Studies in HIV/AIDS and
Aging. This FOA will encourage applications proposing to study HIV infection,
HIV-associated conditions, HIV treatment, or biobehavioral or social factors
associated with HIV/AIDS in the context of aging and/or in older adults. The
research areas encouraged in this FOA are based, in part, on the
recommendations of the Working Group on HIV and Aging convened by the NIH
Office of AIDS Research. These areas include, but are not limited, to the
following:

Cellular
and molecular mechanisms of HIV in aging

Biomarkers
or clinical indices of HIV-associated pathology

HIV-Associated
Non-AIDS (HANA) conditions / Co-morbidities

HIV-Associated
Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND)

Intervention
studies (prevention or treatment)

Frailty/Vulnerability

Social,
behavioral, and mental health studies

Studies considered responsive to this FOA will likely have
some or all of the following characteristics:

Clinical
orientation. Mechanistic studies, or studies involving animal models are
appropriate if integrated with human studies or if directly related to clinical
features of HIV/AIDS.

Focus on
aging and/or the aged.

Attention
to outcomes appropriate to aging populations.

Use of
existing resources where possible.

Selection
of appropriate controls.

The FOA is expected to be published in Spring 2012 with
non-standard receipt dates beginning in Summer 2012. Multiple other NIH
Institutes and Centers are expected to participate.